Defining next and previous relationships

I'm at google.com, and I've just done a search here.…I did a search for lynda.com, and I've come…up with a whole bunch of results for lynda.com.…You've done many searches yourself on Google before.…And you know this drill.…If you scroll all the way down here to the bottom of the…screen, you will see down here at…the bottom this thing that says Goooooooooogle.…Which is pages and pages of search results for things that match lynda.com.…And as you notice…that there is a link here. I'm in page one of my search results.…There's a link here that says next.…

There's no link that says previous because of course I can't go back.…If I click that link that says next I come…to the page two of my search results here, and…now if I scroll to the bottom of the page…I have links for previous and I have links for next.…So the search results are a series of pages that are designed to be viewed in…order, because the links are presented according to…Google from the most relevant match to the least…relevant match.…Although this navigation gives you the option to skip around…

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9/18/2013

Discover how to make websites more search engine friendly, more meaningful, and more future-proof with semantics. In this course, Jen Kramer shows you how simple HTML5 tags add meaning to page structure, and how microdata and metadata can be used to add identifying information—such as author and type of content—right on a page. All this adds up to creating pages that score better (and rank faster) in Google and other search engines, and work better in the growing array of bots and other programs searching the web on behalf of devices.